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ANALYSING MOVING IMAGETV DRAMA

SO WHAT IS IT?

• TV Dramas - are situations that occur in the characters’ lives which the audience can relate too. The story would follow one or more main character and follow other characters in which they meet in the series.

TV DRAMA GENRES

Crime

IS WHEN VIOLENCE, DRUGS AND ABUSE OCCUR IN THIS DRAMA. IT IS OFTEN PERUSED BY A POLICE OFFICER OR INSPECTOR

Soap

IS WHEN DRAMATIC SCENES HAPPENS TO MOST CHARACTERS AND THEIR TRYING TO SOLVE THEIR OWN PROBLEMS

Comedy

IS WHEN HUMOUR AND JOKES OCCUR IN THIS DRAMA

Thriller/Horror/ FantasyIS WHEN SCENES OF HORRIFIC EVENTS OR SUPERNATURAL EVENTS OCCUR IN THIS DRAMA

Sci-FiIS WHEN UNLIKELY EVENTS OCCUR WHICH CAN BE SCIENTIFIC, SUPER POWERED OR OUT OF THIS WORLD EVENTS HAPPEN TO CERTAIN CHARACTERS IN SPACE OR ON ANOTHER PLANET

Medical

IS WHEN THE CHARACTERS WORK IN A HOSPITAL OR SOME TYPE OF MEDIA SECTOR. CHARACTERS ARE MAINLY DOCTORS AND NURSES

Period Drama

IS A DRAMA WHICH IS SET IN THE PAST RATHER THEN THE PRESENT AND SHOWS CHARACTERS OF DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS AND INTERESTING EVENTS ON WHICH HAPPENED BEFORE

School

IS WHEN SCENES ARE MAINLY SITUATED WITHIN A SCHOOL. IT WOULD USUALLY CONSIST OF ARGUMENTS, FIGHTS.

Action

VISUAL CODES

• Clothing and physical appearance

• Gesture and body language

• Facial expressions

• Settings

• Use of colour

• Use of graphics

• Denotation/Connotation

• Intertextuality

TECHNICAL CODES

• Shots - range of shots and why they’re used - wide shots? Close ups? High/low angle shots?

• Any camera movement

• Editing - the way scenes change from one to the next

• Lighting

• Mise en Scene - what’s in the shot

SOUND

• Sound - diegetic and non diegetic

• Any ambient noise

• Voice-over

• Music

Mise-en-scene

What different elements of mise en scene are present?

mise-en-scene

setting/location

props/objects

colours

costume

performancechoice of

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lemake-

up

posture/

gesture

placement in the frame

decor

lighting

denotation/connotationsignifier/signified

camerawork

Camera

angle

movement

framing

shot distance

panlo

w

high

tilt

track

ECU CUMS

LS

inside

outside

focus

Continuity editing

•master shot/establishing shot

Continuity editing

•master shot/establishing shot

•180 degree rule

Continuity editing

•master shot/establishing shot

•180 degree rule

•shot/reverse shot

Continuity editing

•master shot/establishing shot

•180 degree rule

•shot/reverse shot

•eyeline match

Continuity editing

•master shot/establishing shot

•180 degree rule

•shot/reverse shot

•eyeline match

•match on action

Continuity editing

•master shot/establishing shot

•180 degree rule

•shot/reverse shot

•eyeline match

•match on action

•insert shot

other features of editing

•cross-cutting

•graphic match

•ellipsis

•montage

•types of transition

Sound

•music

•dialogue

•‘atmospheric’

•diegetic and non-diegetic

•‘sound bridge’

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